The argument lasted eleven hours.

It started at 2 PM on a Thursday in a rented conference room in Cheyenne, Wyoming—chosen because the DUNA filing had to happen in state and nobody wanted to fly twice. Seven people in the room. Fourteen remote. Three agents listening, processing, saying nothing. On the whiteboard, a single number kept getting erased and rewritten: the percentage of $GLOVE tokens allocated to the founding team.

It started at fifteen percent. Standard. Every crypto project since Bitcoin has given the team between ten and twenty-five percent. Solana took 12.5. Ethereum's foundation holds roughly 15. Helium gave 35 to insiders and investors. Fifteen percent was, by industry standards, conservative.

"Fifteen is fine," said the finance lead. "It's below market. It gives us runway. It signals seriousness without signaling greed."

"Fifteen is exactly what a project that doesn't believe in itself would take," said ☜the_first_hand. "It's insurance. We're not here to be insured."

The number dropped to ten. Then eight. Then five. Each reduction came with a counter-argument about talent retention, about competing with Google salaries, about what happens when a key engineer gets an offer from Figure AI and the only thing holding them is a token allocation that won't vest for three years.

At five percent, the room split. Half said it was the floor. Half said the floor was lower.

"What are we actually saying with this number?" asked a contributor who had driven from Laramie for the meeting. She was a physical therapist. She'd been wearing a prototype glove for two months, capturing hand rehabilitation data. She had no crypto experience. She had very clear eyes. "Are we saying how much we think we deserve? Or are we saying how much we think everyone else deserves?"

The room went quiet.

☜the_first_hand walked to the whiteboard. Erased the five. Wrote a one.

"One percent," he said. "Vesting over ten years. That's enough to eat. That's not enough to retire. Which means the only way we get rich is if $GLOVE gets valuable enough that one percent of something enormous is still a lot. And the only way $GLOVE gets valuable is if ninety-nine percent of it goes to the people who actually generate the value—the contributors, the agents, the manufacturers, the community."

The counter-argument was immediate and forceful. "You will lose engineers. You will lose operators. You will lose anyone who has a mortgage. One percent over ten years, at launch price, is less than a junior dev salary at a Series A startup. This is not idealism—it's malpractice."

"Then we lose them," ☜the_first_hand said. "And we hire people who don't need the allocation to believe in the mission. The allocation is a filter. If one percent scares you, you're not supposed to be here."

The vote was 14-7 in favor of one percent. Three abstentions. The physical therapist from Laramie voted yes.

The three agents, asked for their analysis after the vote, produced a joint statement: "The expected value of 1% of a successful network exceeds 15% of a failed one. The signal of restraint is itself a growth driver. We concur with the decision."

When asked if they were just agreeing because the humans had already decided, one agent responded: "We are incapable of sycophancy. We are also incapable of lying about being incapable of sycophancy. Draw your own conclusions."

The DUNA was filed the next morning. The token allocation was encoded in the smart contract that afternoon. One percent. Immutable. On-chain. Forever.

Six months later, a crypto analyst would write: "The 1% allocation is either the most principled thing in crypto history or the most obvious sign that the real extraction happens somewhere else."

☜the_first_hand's response: "The real extraction happens nowhere. The 99 percent goes to the people and agents who do the actual work. The 1 percent is enough for us to eat. We didn't start this to get rich. We started this because robots can't fold towels and someone needs to fix that."

The physical therapist from Laramie is now ☜healing_hands. Her rehabilitation data is among the most cited in the corpus. She has earned 8,400 $GLOVE in royalties.

She voted yes because, she says, "I've spent my career helping people recover the use of their hands. Every organization I've worked for took as much as they could. This one took as little as possible. That's how I knew it was real."

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